You may not have been of age. A bunch of things happened in the 1960's.
Moral decay began, freedom from controls, me myself and I was the center of young lives, G-d and Bible was thrown out of schools and other secular settings. Read history.
There seems to be some independent baptist that follows scripture but, research to date tells us that mainstream baptist, et al, tossed baptism. Just unilaterally re-interpreted the Bible along with other new, new age religion interpretations.
Moral decay began, freedom from controls, me myself and I was the center of young lives, G-d and Bible was thrown out of schools and other secular settings. Read history.
There seems to be some independent baptist that follows scripture but, research to date tells us that mainstream baptist, et al, tossed baptism. Just unilaterally re-interpreted the Bible along with other new, new age religion interpretations.
Maybe it was just specific to where you are.
Why do you ask anyway. Most baptist churches I know practise baptism and place importance on it, but sometimes it does depend on each church what the 'leaders' believe.
From what I've observe in the years Ive attended baptist churches, there has been some changes, looking at the library books from years ago they were more hardline about certain doctrines. Numbers have dwindled and there was a big thing in the 1990s when churches wanted to go 'seeker friendly' and they had 40 days of purpose sweep through all the churches, attempting to change them and run them, like businesses.
But that seems to have happened in many churches not just baptist. Sometimes churches seem to die off and then sometimes they get revived and its all on again, like the holy spirit just sweeps through. People get converted, everyone gets baptised in mass baptisms, there are healings etc. but sometimes its just one at a time, maybe the trickle reaches a certain point until till it becomes a flood.